The New Technology in the Automotive Industry by Using Tailor Welded Blanks

摘要

Tailor welded blanks are defined as two or more sheets of blanks with equal or different thickness, strengths, or surface coatings welded together before forming process in the automotive workshop. Using tailor welded blanks in the body-in-white structure could obviously reduce the weight of the car and reduce the material scraps in the workshop. Compared with the traditional cars, the energy consumption of cars with tailor welded blanks was reduced. The application of tailor welded blanks in the automobile industry has brought more chances for the car manufacturers and more benefits for the customers. In this paper, the history and benefits using tailor welded blanks in the automotive industry were discussed in detail.